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Friday, April 15, 2016

Landi Kotal Pass

This photograph of the Landi Kotal Pass is from an album of rare
historical photographs depicting people and places associated with the
Second Anglo-Afghan War. Pictured are members of the Queens’s Own Madras
Sappers and Miners of the Peshawar Valley Field Force inspecting the
new road through the Khyber Pass that was constructed by the British
during their march to Kabul at the start of the conflict. British forces
had to travel through the Landi Kotal Pass to reach Jalālābād, the
first major town on the Afghan side of the Khyber Pass.